i would nevertheless be interested to hear from anyone who knows a
midi to cv interface that can allocate, say, four voices.

florian, i kind of half agree with you. to make your most interesting
patches polyphonic would cost a fortune. but that's ignoring the
cheapo and/or lofi sounds that are waiting to be discovered by someone
daft enough to put the time in.

if we could hypothetically start with a three voice synth (and i dare
say that's enough for many of us :-)) we could have:

mfb triple oscillator
3x a120 vcf
a143-2 quad adsr
2x a132 dual vca
a145 lfo
a138 mixer
and a few multiples

doubtless i've forgotten something, but we're still way off the price
of a poly evolver. we have fewer possibilities, but different ones,
(especially if we route everything back into everything else) and
we've hopefully got a few quid left in the bank to start expanding it
in our own personal individual ways. or replace the mfb with four
a110's or whatever.

if i had a suitable midi interface, i'd post something to hear. but i
don't. voice allocation is simple with max/msp, but i'd still need
four a190's.

anyone know of anything

cheers, stu